Are you ready to Level Up?

Do you want to jazz up your design with showstopping spreads? Does your photography need some focus? Maybe you want to capture the spirit and zest of your school better in your writing. You might even entertain the notion that your book could be a national award winner. Whatever you goal, Walsworth can get you there. We’ve created the Level Up contest to help.

Homecoming. There is a football game. Sometimes it is warm, sometimes it is cold, and sometimes it rains. A king and queen are crowned. The queen always cannot believe she has been chosen. Then there is a dance, and students — well, they dance.

When Megan Fontanoza joined yearbook her senior year, she had no idea the adviser had already pegged her to be an editor. She soon learned she would have to design a section of the yearbook. But since she had no experience in graphic design, she would need a quick education and a lot of inspiration. To pull it off, Megan consulted with other editors and watched them develop ideas for their own designs. She saw them spending hours flipping through books and magazines, flagging pages and sketching out ideas.

Brainstorm. Any word with “storm” in it must be fairly intense. When you brainstorm for story ideas, dozens of thoughts are going through your mind at once. You may be using your brain, but brainstorming can be a gut-wrenching process. However, there are ways to capitalize on the process to make it more useful. Brainstorming for story ideas is a year-round activity for the yearbook staffs at three high schools where the advisers have tried-and-true methods for helping their students through the process.

The writer, Abby, told me they were like a family — sisters, really. But for some reason, I could not imagine a home with the closet space to accommodate the 32 members of the drill team. And there was another thing — something hard to place, like a melody to a familiar song but with slightly new wording.
Had I heard this story before?